Eric Mayer

For those of you who have an Amazon Kindle or are thinking of buying one, please note that Poisoned Pen Press is releasing some of its older titles in Kindle editions. Among them, I'm happy to say, are One For Sorrow and Two For Joy, the first two entries in our Byzantine mystery series, along with the series prequel, Four For A Boy. If you're curious about the books Kindle certainly makes them cheap and easy to try.

I have to admit that I don't own a Kindle or any other electronic reading device. It's not due to any aversion to electronic publishing but rather an unease about Internet commerce. I still insist on depositing checks by handing them to a bank teller rather than dropping them into an ATM, so I have yet to enter the brave new world of PayPal and the like.

Until that day comes, if it does, I quite enjoy reading books on my computer monitor. I like the convenience. As electronic text devices are refined, I suspect that paper books will disappear, except as art objects. Words, after all, are symbols, designed to transfer the electro-chemical activity in one mind to other minds. The need to reduce words to a physical state for transfer is a necessary inconvenience. Electronic words are much easier to transport and carry every bit of the information contained in ink words. Indeed, we have electronic activity in our brains, not ink. (All this might be a potential disaster for historians but that's another subject)

I regularly read e-Books from archives like Gutenberg. Ironically I love the new fangled format but prefer old style writing. I guess old style writing in a new fangled format would pretty much describe our own Kindled mysteries.

Eric Mayer Byzantine Blog Probably the only vaguely interesting thing about me is that with my wife, Mary Reed, I co-author the John the Eunuch mystery series set in sixth century Constantinople. But that doesn't stop me from dwelling here on the boring minutiae of the rest of my life, present and past, along with the occasional word about writing.
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Previous Entry :: Next Entry Read/Post Comments (10) Eric's Website Poisoned Pen Press There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to. --Michel de Montaigne		2008-03-08 2:11 PM Kindled For those of you who have an Amazon Kindle or are thinking of buying one, please note that Poisoned Pen Press is releasing some of its older titles in Kindle editions. Among them, I'm happy to say, are One For Sorrow and Two For Joy, the first two entries in our Byzantine mystery series, along with the series prequel, Four For A Boy. If you're curious about the books Kindle certainly makes them cheap and easy to try. I have to admit that I don't own a Kindle or any other electronic reading device. It's not due to any aversion to electronic publishing but rather an unease about Internet commerce. I still insist on depositing checks by handing them to a bank teller rather than dropping them into an ATM, so I have yet to enter the brave new world of PayPal and the like. Until that day comes, if it does, I quite enjoy reading books on my computer monitor. I like the convenience. As electronic text devices are refined, I suspect that paper books will disappear, except as art objects. Words, after all, are symbols, designed to transfer the electro-chemical activity in one mind to other minds. The need to reduce words to a physical state for transfer is a necessary inconvenience. Electronic words are much easier to transport and carry every bit of the information contained in ink words. Indeed, we have electronic activity in our brains, not ink. (All this might be a potential disaster for historians but that's another subject) I regularly read e-Books from archives like Gutenberg. Ironically I love the new fangled format but prefer old style writing. I guess old style writing in a new fangled format would pretty much describe our own Kindled mysteries. Read/Post Comments (10) Previous Entry :: Next Entry Back to Top